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Friday Dec 05, 2008

Yesterday (December 4th), Sergey Petrunia gave a presentation on what's new in MySQL Optimizer. Unfortunately, the slides didn't show up in the Dimdim presentation area, which also means that the recorded session only has Sergey's voice but not the slides. (I've filed a bug in Dimdim's issue tracker.) However, Sergey kept referring to slide numbers in his talk, so it should be fairly easy (just not as convenient as usual) to follow his recorded presentation.

You can bookmark this one; it will remain valid for all future sessions. Remember, though, that the meeting room will open only 15 minutes before sessions start.

Our new commercial license is for 100 seats, so everybody should be able to join future sessions. (For Sergey's session, we had between 15 and 20 participants. We were still using my free Dimdim account for that session, which limits the number of attendees to 20. I suspect some people couldn't join in. Sorry for that.)

Next week's session will be about the Random Query Generator, a tool that creates random queries that can be sent to the MySQL server. This MySQL University session will start at 14:00 UTC / 8am CST (Central) / 9am EST (Eastern) / 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET / 17:00 MDT (Moscow).

Tuesday Dec 02, 2008

This Thursday (December 4th), Sergey Petrunia will highlight what's new in MySQL Optimizer, with a focus on MySQL 5.1. Since Sergey is one of the main developers in charge of MySQL Optimizer, you can expect to get some in-depth insights that only very few people could provide.

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